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Is double dipping normal (or am I just neurotic?)

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ilovecherries · 09/08/2017 15:47

Quite prepared to be told I am! Went for a bikini wax and tidy up today at lunchtime. (don't normally bother but have a new swimming costume). Anyway as she did my lower leg I realised she kept dipping the same spatula back in the pot. And mentioned I was her 13th wax of the day! The more I thought about double dipping everyone, the more queasy I got, and I told her I'd chickened out and couldn't face a bikini wax after all, and just to do my lower leg. It's a huge high street beauty salon, and it goes like a fair with nails/waxing/spray tans/massage etc. I haven't been in it before but it looked very run down and not super clean inside, but I thought as it's constantly busy it would probably be fine. Am I being ridiculous? Is this common practice? She already thought I was crazy as I asked for a square of couch roll to put over the (uncovered) pillow, and had to go hunting for some.

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BertramTheWalrus · 10/08/2017 16:38

Both things are absolutely gross and I would never set foot in there again.

trinity0097 · 10/08/2017 17:21

Surely it doesn't matter if she double dips just on you, but not ok if the wax had been used previously?

Polly99 · 10/08/2017 17:24

Ew, no. It is not normal.

LockedOutOfMN · 10/08/2017 19:58

No to double-dipping.

That salon sounds a bit unhygenic, OP, I agree with you.

CantChoose · 10/08/2017 20:07

Nope. My lady uses a wooden spatula and never double dips.

ilovecherries · 10/08/2017 22:56

No, it wasn't just used on me. The wax pot was heating on the side, and I know the guy before me was having his bits done (it wasn't very soundproof). She walked out leaving him to get dressed, and the moment he came out she told me to go straight in and get ready. The wax was already there in the heater, and she immediately started using it.

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GinIsIn · 10/08/2017 22:58

Noooooo! Are you sure she was using the same spatula?! Everywhere I've been, they use one end of the spatula, then the other end, then bin and repeat.

ilovecherries · 10/08/2017 23:02

I'm now wondering if there is some body I should report it to - the more I think about it, the more yucky I feel. If it was a restaurant, I guess I could go to environmental health, but not sure who you would go to about a beauty salon? I'm not terribly hairy, and rarely bother with waxes, a ladyshave copes fine normally, but the odd time I've been in the past the salon I went to was super clean. I've fairly recently moved, and as I said, this one was so busy every time I passed, and had good FB reviews, that I assumed it would be fine. Really wasn't that nice though.

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ilovecherries · 10/08/2017 23:04

It was def the same one. After I noticed the first time, and thought 'surely she didn't just...' I watched very carefully, and I had sort of propped myself up on my elbows to watch.

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Youcanttaketheskyfromme · 10/08/2017 23:07

No that's gross:

LockedOutOfMN · 11/08/2017 16:21

Can you report it to Environmental Health department of the council?

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